A Warm Moist Salty God: Women Journeying Towards Wisdom by Edwina Gately (Paperback) (978094014726): Edwina Gately tells how as a young and eager missionary teacher, she was surprised to find that God had arrived in Africa before her. Moreover, God was not the patriarchal, white Englishman she had learned about in school. To the Maasai women, for instance, God is warm, moist and salty – and often female. Edwina briskly introduces a great wealth of scriptural, traditional and contemporary spirituality which, through underpinning and fulfilling Christianity, has been diminished or suppressed because of its feminine focus. In her forthright and anecdotal style, Edwina tells of Sophia Wisdom, of Shirpra and Puah, of the Peroxide Hooker, of the bishop who wanted to wash feet, of Julian of Norwich, of a worn-out Jesus and a playful, risen Christ. All exhort us to expand our faith, to run from our corners and join in the unfolding of Creation.